Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, Volume 3Church & Company, 1853 |
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... original manuscript of Washington's Farewell Address . Some of the finest collections are to be found in Philadelphia . Mr. F. J. Dreer's comprises , in addition to his own varied ac- quisitions , all the material industriously gathered ...
... original manuscript of Washington's Farewell Address . Some of the finest collections are to be found in Philadelphia . Mr. F. J. Dreer's comprises , in addition to his own varied ac- quisitions , all the material industriously gathered ...
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... original in conception , are deeply in- teresting , because thoroughly imbued with the character and feelings of the times in which they appeared . The introduction to these volumes has been highly esteemed , and justly pronounced of a ...
... original in conception , are deeply in- teresting , because thoroughly imbued with the character and feelings of the times in which they appeared . The introduction to these volumes has been highly esteemed , and justly pronounced of a ...
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... original genius . " It was his own prevention , Chap- lain , altogether his own prevention ! " 66 Josey is somewhat superstitious . This of course is attributable to his ignorance , the poor fellow not knowing even how to read . One ...
... original genius . " It was his own prevention , Chap- lain , altogether his own prevention ! " 66 Josey is somewhat superstitious . This of course is attributable to his ignorance , the poor fellow not knowing even how to read . One ...
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... original brilliant editor , and resumed its prominence as an organ of government . Mi- chaud , while editor , during his last adminis- tration , held the office of reader to the King , at a salary of 3000 francs per annum ; and it is ...
... original brilliant editor , and resumed its prominence as an organ of government . Mi- chaud , while editor , during his last adminis- tration , held the office of reader to the King , at a salary of 3000 francs per annum ; and it is ...
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... original publisher , or of Mr. Graham , his successor , he comes before the public ( vide Lit. World , Aug. 30 , 51 , ) cautioning them against harboring his offspring , evidently be- cause from its respectable appearance , there is ...
... original publisher , or of Mr. Graham , his successor , he comes before the public ( vide Lit. World , Aug. 30 , 51 , ) cautioning them against harboring his offspring , evidently be- cause from its respectable appearance , there is ...
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Page 180 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Page 267 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Page 181 - At this sermon there was also one of our club, who, being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended, had by precaution emptied his pockets before he came from home. Towards the conclusion of the discourse, however, he felt a strong...
Page 138 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 293 - Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling ; now and then she raises some with her hand. While we were there, W. Slawata, a Bohemian baron, had letters to present to her ; and she, after pulling off her glove, gave him her right hand to kiss, sparkling with rings and jewels — a mark of particular favour. Wherever she turned her face, as she was going along, everybody fell down on their knees.
Page 293 - English fashion, strewed with hay, through which the queen commonly passes in her way to chapel. At the door stood a gentleman dressed in velvet, with a gold chain, whose office was to introduce to the queen any person of distinction that came to wait on her. It was Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of nobility. In the same hall were the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Page 200 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Page 293 - She had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels; her hands were small ; her fingers long ; and her stature neither tall nor low ; her air was stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 297 - He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before his death. He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of the monastery. His domestics marched thither in funeral procession, with black tapers in their hands. He himself followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin, with much solemnity.
Page 294 - When they had waited there a little while, the yeomen of the guard entered, bare-headed, clothed in scarlet, with a golden rose upon their backs, bringing in, at each turn, a course of...